Every good girl needs a thug that’ll give her the world and more, but what happens when the love comes with drama and secrets? Growing up, Shaniya “Niya” Brown fell for the neighborhood terrorizer, Dreon Carter, and at the age of sixteen, she became pregnant. When her parents found out, they decided to uproot them to another city. After losing contact with Dreon, she experienced her first heartbreak and decided to shift her focus back on her education. Now twenty-three, Niya is in her final year of law school, but over the years she continued to experience the short end of any relationship she was in, including the relationship with her parents. She finally accepts that her heart has never fully healed, but that all changes once she sees Dreon again. She doesn’t know how he will feel about the secret she’s been keeping from him. Dreon Carter was known for the havoc he wreaked growing up. But after being abandoned by his mother on his grandmother’s steps, he was angry and released that anger on other kids. Sometimes, even letting Niya tag along. Barely graduating high school, due to poor attendance, he went into the streets full time and was now known by the street name Menace. He ended up serving some time in prison, but now at twenty-five, he is the king of the dope game in Cleveland, running the streets with his right-hand man, Renzo. He has a two-year-old daughter by a crazy baby mama who’s set on being a pain in his ass and causing friction between him and Niya. Along with running the streets, he’s trying to run his home, but with the streets and his home life trying to cross, he runs into problems. The bond of Menace and Niya is undeniably unbreakable, but is Niya strong enough to be the woman of a thug, going against everything she’s about, and dealing with the drama that comes along? Can Menace avoid the pressures of the street life and be the man Niya wants him to be, while also not giving up his streets, or will it all be too much?

“Must be nice, having someone who understands that a thug has feelings too.”- Lyfe Jennings The drama, sex, twists, and turns return, picking up right where part one left off. After Menace and Renzo are ambushed by a drive-by, a shootout transpires, leaving Menace fighting for his life. While on the ambulance, Niya revealed a shocking secret: the baby she was pregnant with, is now a seven-year-old boy, Dreon Jr. If Menace pulls through, he is not only faced with the pressure of making sure he finds out who is responsible for the attempt on his life but the betrayal of Niya keeping his son from him for seven years! Niya, always seen as the good girl, isn’t as innocent as she seems, now that the cat is out the bag. The stress of everything, including the possibility of losing Menace, has left her an emotional wreck, and she doesn’t know where to turn, as her poor choices are now hanging over her head. Best friend YaYa is also on a mission to dig herself out of the trouble she’s gotten herself in. She just hopes that she will be able to secure her friendship with Niya and a love with Renzo. Renzo, who for the first time in a while, has feelings that he isn’t running away from with YaYa, but her shady ways are making it hard for him to trust her. Will they end up together after everything has been laid on the table? Enjoy the final ride with the crew as they navigate the streets of love, sex, and lies. Will everyone get their happy ending? Read and find out if the tables are turned when thugs have feelings.

Learn how to manage your most difficult feelings and build the emotional strength you need to create the life of your dreams. ​ Sadness, shame, helplessness, anger, embarrassment, disappointment, frustration, and vulnerability. In 30 years as a practicing psychologist, Dr. Joan Rosenberg has found that what most often blocks people from success and feeling capable in life is the inability to experience, move through, and handle these 8 unpleasant feelings. Knowing how to deal with intense, overwhelming, or uncomfortable feelings is essential to building confidence, emotional strength, and resilience. Yet when we distract or disconnect from these feelings, we move away from confidence, health, and our desired pursuits, ultimately undermining our ability to fully realize our ambitions. Neuroscientists suggest that the biological lifespan of a feeling, often known first through bodily sensations, lasts approximately 90 seconds. Dr. Rosenberg teaches readers to be aware, consciously lean into, and balance these unpleasant emotions by riding one or more 90-second waves of the bodily sensations. By staying present to these 8 feelings, we cultivate the confidence that we can handle life's challenges and the deep sense we can pursue whatever we want. Combining more than three decades of clinical experience with aspects of clinical psychology, mindfulness, and neuroscience research, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love is a strategic and practical guide on building core emotional strength, reducing anxiety, and developing the confidence you need to create a life of your design -- a life you love.

In the ending of part two, Tiphani and Israel find out quickly how divided they have become. With neither knowing the route to rekindle their love, they grow distant. Israel is taking on fatherhood the best way he knows how, and he encounters more than he wished for. Finding Aubrey is at the top of his list. With his search, more truths are revealed than he expected. Being the man he is, he stands tall with everything coming his way. Even with things changing in his life, the one thing that hasn’t changed is Tiphani being his best friend. Times grow hard, but does that mean all love will be lost? This last installment guarantees to take you on a ride. Will love conquer all, or will it just not be enough to allow love to flourish? Tampering with a thug’s heart doesn’t seem like the right thing to do when your heart is played on right back.

The streets pump blood through Rocko’s heart, but his women are the electricity that spreads and causes it to contract. Though he’s madly in love with his fiancée, Troi, he can’t keep his past mistakes with other women from catching up with him. “Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.” Troi is tired of his constant lies and cheating ways, while Heather and Mai find that being Rocko’s baby mamas comes with more than they bargained for. Troi discovers that she’s pregnant just when she’s wishing she could shake Rocko for the last time. When things seem as if they can’t get any worse, Rocko discovers he has yet another baby mama who hid his child from him. Trying his best to stay out of prison for a murder he didn’t commit, he keeps Troi out of harm’s way. While the streets want him, his children, and the women in his life dead, the only thing he wants to do is to marry Troi once and for all. Will Rocko be able to keep everyone safe and change his life for the better? Or will the street jury find him guilty and take everything away?

Tiphani Walton is living her best life with longtime boyfriend, Benji. The one day that should have been full of love led her to handcuffs and homelessness. The four-year relationship with Benji quickly turns into a toxic situation. The last thing she expected was to run into St. Louis heavy cocaine pusha, Israel Townsend all in the same night. Israel Townsend's family name is known throughout the city. He carries his strong dominance everywhere he goes, and his great looks always capture the souls of the lusting women. Not one to get too heavily involved, he finds himself doing the unthinkable when it comes down to Miss Tiphani. From the first encounter, he no longer can break from her captivating demeanor. The two start off as merely friends, and soon it blooms into something they never imagined. With time, you can’t count on things to remain the same, but these two seem to uphold a friendship like no other. What happens when you accidentally fall in love with someone who is identified as a best friend? Tampering with a Thug’s Heart can be a deadly situation, but in this read, you’ll see the fight to remain solid in the game of love. Truths will be told. Feelings will be hurt. Friends become lovers. Read on to see what all will be revealed.

Do you believe you can find love in a one-night stand? Successful and beautiful, Hazel Morris is living her best life and doesn't know that she is missing anything until one lustful night changes it all. After meeting Charvez, a bad boy to the core, on the night of her best friend's wedding, she is caught up in the moment and lets her lust take over to enjoy one night with him, even though she knows it is wrong. It is only supposed to be a single night of fun but there is one problem: Hazel's emotions are quickly caught up and she wants more. Charvez was a street nigga in every sense of the word but after running his father's empire for years, he was ready to call it quits. When he ran into Hazel at his friend and right-hand man's wedding, love was the furthest thing from his mind, but her beauty was too much for him to ignore. After drinking the night away with Hazel, he's overcome with sexual desire and ignores the urgings in his mind telling him that she is off-limits. Once the night is over, he tries to rid her from his mind but the sweet temptation of pursuing a woman he can't have begins working against his self-control. It's dangerous to want her and pursuing her could cost him his life, but he's unable to resist his desire. Is having a woman that he can't get out of his mind worth the fight?

Warning: Beautiful Collision is set against the backdrop of the sex trafficking trade. It's not easy reading. though I have tried to remain realistic, without pulling punches. Please note that some scenes could be considered rape trauma triggers, and are by no means meant used for dramatic effect. *** Gray McAllister is taken back to Roshkov's house, having found that leaving her past behind is nearly impossible. Thane Blackwell is determined to save her, and will go to any length to succeed. Gray's heart is broken, her freedom taken away, but she is still protected by Alexei. But reality has a way of laying the cards on the table and with the harsh truth of sex trafficking staring Gray in the face, she soon faces a decision that will change her life. And maybe put her life in danger. Can Gray go up against her captors? Can she do some good while she is held within the mansion? And when the time comes will she be able to lay her life on the line for all the women held in the basement? The stakes are impossibly high in this final instalment of the Desperation series, but courage, family and love may be the only way to come out alive.

Not your typical "thug" in this urban-tragic drama full of suspense with a twist of irony. A Thug's Redemption hits home for many urban youths who simply just want to make it out of the 'hood ALIVE! Taking place in one of the roughest neighborhoods in North Philly during a time when crime and violence was as normal as hot-sauce on fried chicken, and the temptations of the profitable street pharmacy business seemed to be a fast escape from the impoverish and hellish nightmare that Jamal and his brother lived in, this street lit novel teaches a harsh life lesson that will either cause Jamal to make wiser decisions, or destroy him completely. What starts out as an eye for an eye mindset to avenge his best friend's murder, who Jamal believed was killed because of his own actions, sucks him into the street life and lands him right in the middle of a drug war between his cousin Samir, a prominent head figure in the drug dealing business, rival drug gangs, and crooked Philadelphia Police Officers. Jamal is viewed as a "thug", a misguided, trouble making, dope dealing, dice shooting, fist fighting thug who is more likely to see the closing lid to his casket or the sliding bars to a jail cell before the age of 21. But those who know Jamal personally understand that really all he wants is to keep his brother safe and have a life with a beautiful young lady named Tamera who helps him to see that there is much more to life outside of what he's been exposed to in North Philly. But can Jamal really have that life, or is it like Biggie Smalls said- "It was all a dream..."? A desperate move by his younger brother Shawn brings back the haunting night from Jamal's past where he caught his first body, killing the person responsible for taking out his best friend. And now despite how hard he's tried to protect his brother from the life he was exposed to, Shawn could possibly face jail time for a murder he didn't commit or worse... Just when Jamal thinks he's out debt to his cousin Samir for helping him carrying out the hit years before, Jamal is back at his mercy only this time, the payment for his debt may be more than what he can afford to spare. In this urban fiction drama, what goes around, comes around and Karma comes back to claim what the universe is owed in the worse possible way for Jamal. But to protect the people he loves, Jamal is willing to do whatever it takes, even if it costs him his life.